MATHEMATICIAN

André Weil

1906 - 1998

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André Weil (; French: [ɑ̃dʁe vɛj]; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Weil has received more than 556,076 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). André Weil is the 163rd most popular mathematician (up from 170th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from France (up from 1,227th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Mathematician.

André Weil is most famous for his work on the Weil Conjectures, which are a set of conjectures in number theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, André Weil ranks 163 out of 1,004. Before him are Menelaus of Alexandria, Robert Aumann, Giambattista della Porta, Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, and Alonzo Church. After him are James Joseph Sylvester, Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, André Weil ranks 59. Before him are Estée Lauder, Bugsy Siegel, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Max Delbrück, Ernst Chain, and James Hadley Chase. After him are Philip Johnson, Hans Aumeier, Ettore Majorana, Fredric Brown, Anthony Mann, and Nelson Goodman. Among people deceased in 1998, André Weil ranks 29. Before him are Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Linda McCartney, Alfred Schnittke, and George H. Hitchings. After him are Lúcio Costa, Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, Derek Barton, and Nelson Goodman.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Weil ranks 1,160 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Dupré (1886), André Maginot (1877), André Bazin (1918), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Henry I of Navarre (1244), and Theuderic II (587). After him are Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746), Balthus (1908), Jan Gossaert (1478), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), and Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, André Weil ranks 32. Before him are Étienne Bézout (1730), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), and Michel Rolle (1652). After him are Pierre Bouguer (1698), René Thom (1923), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), and Édouard Lucas (1842).

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